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Originally Posted by fulham
This is what actually ending a war looks like.
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No... this is what a hastily thought out retreat from a country that had massive insurgent elements looks like.
Ending a war and putting in the proper elements to modernize and stabilize the country would have looked a lot more like Korea, Japan, or Germany... but Afghanistan had 50 years of prior war, religious tribalism, no clear sense of national identity, and urban/rural divide that would have taken generations to fix in a stable modernized society.
Americans did not have the political will to properly do this longer term since it would have required a long term permanent military presence and significant investment capital. There was no real driving force or huge enemy to motivate this type of investment nor resources they could gain from Afghanistan. Not to mention Trump or not talking about the US should never have been in there in the first place.